The young UT Southwestern professor studied cell fate in yeast and was about to publish the first results from his lab.

The yeast’s output of noscapine, a cough suppressant naturally made by poppies, is 18,000-fold higher than previous attempts.

With multiple applications in biomedicine, the antibodies can now be made quickly, cheaply, and without the need for an alpaca or one of its relatives.

By spreading a poison and hoarding the remedy, wtf4 improves its chances of being inherited. 

Members of the Synthetic Yeast Genome Project have synthesized five additional yeast chromosomes from scratch. 

Researchers find that some duplicated yeast genes develop dependency—the loss of one copy leads to the failure of the other.

Clostridium botulinum produces a transcription factor that can aggregate and self-propagate a prion-like form, leading to genome-wide changes in gene expression in E. coli, according to a study.

Yeast study finds many instances—often among related genes—in which a mutation in one gene cancels the negative effects of a mutation in another.

Susan Lindquist of MIT and the Whitehead Institute broke scientific ground on prions and heat shock proteins.

Newly discovered amino acid reassignment could have implications for certain biotech applications and RNA-based evolutionary theories.